Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

شَكَّتِ

Root: شكو

Form: 2

Full Definition

شَكَّتِII , Verbal.Noun تَشْكِيَةٌ; and ; and ; or, accord. to Th, only this last; The women took for themselves, or made, a شَكْوَة [q. v.] for the churning of milk; because it was little in quantity; the شكوة being small, so that only a small quantity can be churned in it: or, as in the T, شكّى and تشكّى he took for himself, or made, a شَكْوَة: [or] so : and so .

def.2 شَكَّى شَاكِيَهُ, Verbal.Noun تَشْكِيَةٌ, expl. in the K as meaning كَفَّ عَنْهُ and طَيَّبَ نَفْسَهُ, is a foul mistranscription: correctly, سَلَّى شَاكِيَهُ, meaning “ He comforted his complainer, and consoled him for that which had befallen him; ” as in the Tekmileh.


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